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SUMMARY:November 2026 - Didcot Cafe Scientifique\, Justin Fanstone\, The AI Reality Check: Notes from Five Years Inside the Machine and the Realities of the Modern Workplace
DESCRIPTION:Didcot Cafe Scientifique\, Tuesday 17th November 2026\, 7.30 – 9pm \nCornerstone Arts Centre\, Didcot \nJustin Fanstone\, The AI Reality Check: Notes from Five Years Inside the Machine and the Realities of the Modern Workplace \nSince the public arrival of ChatGPT in late 2022\, the narrative around artificial intelligence has swung violently between apocalyptic panic and transformative hype. But what does AI adoption actually look like when stripped of Silicon Valley sales pitches and tested against everyday operations? \nDrawing on five years inside Google alongside direct governance experience across higher education\, charitable organisations\, housing\, and early-stage ventures\, this talk offers a pragmatic ground-truth assessment of the modern workplace. We will examine where AI tools are quietly delivering genuine value\, where high-profile implementations have fallen flat\, and why widespread predictions of catastrophic job losses have largely failed to materialise on the ground. Finally\, we will look toward emerging technical trends\, demystify the conversation surrounding Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)\, and explore what this evolving landscape truly means for professionals\, organisations\, and society in the years ahead. \n  \nJustin is a commercially focussed technologist who has spent his career helping organisations implement technology to deliver business benefit. Most recently his digital transformation work at Google has focussed on leveraging data analytics and artificial intelligence to develop insights that deliver quality improvements and business efficiencies. \nJustin has a keen interest in how technology and artificial intelligence will transform the future of society. He serves as an External Governor at the University of Portsmouth\, an Independent Board Advisor at the disability equality charity Scope and as a Non-Executive Director at Raven Housing Trust and flexible workspace app Reef. \n 
URL:https://didcotfirst.org/event/november-2026-didcot-cafe-scientifique-john-broadbent-talk-on-honeybees/
LOCATION:Cornerstone Arts Centre\, 25 Station Rd\,\, Didcot\, Oxfordshire\, OX11 7NE\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:January 2027 - Didcot Cafe Scientifique\, Duncan Murdock\, Uncovering Oxfordshire’s Dinosaur Highway
DESCRIPTION:Didcot Cafe Scientifique  \nTuesday 19th January 2027 Cornerstone Arts Centre 7.30-9pm \nUncovering Oxfordshire’s Dinosaur Highway\, Duncan Murdock \nIn a stunning find\, researchers from the Universities of Oxford and Birmingham have uncovered a huge expanse of quarry floor filled with hundreds of different dinosaur footprints\, creating multiple enormous trackways. Dating back to the Middle Jurassic Period (around 166 million years ago)\, the trackways form part of a huge ‘dinosaur highway’ and include footprints from the 9 metre ferocious predator Megalosaurus\, and herbivorous dinosaurs up to twice that size. \n  \nDuncan Murdock \nI am a Collections Manager in Earth Collections at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History. I am responsible for the day-to-day management of the Museum’s mineralogy and petrology collections\, and parts of the invertebrate palaeontology collections. I also have a significant role in developing new exhibitions and displays from temporary exhibitions. \n 
URL:https://didcotfirst.org/event/january-2027-didcot-cafe-scientifique-duncan-murdock-dinosaur-highways/
LOCATION:Cornerstone Arts Centre\, 25 Station Rd\,\, Didcot\, Oxfordshire\, OX11 7NE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Cafe Scientifique
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